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Berlin Film Festival Opens Amid Tight COVID Restrictions

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Ed Meza @edmezavarThe 72nd Berlin Film Festival got off to a promising if somewhat subdued start Feb. 10 amid strict restrictions due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, which put a major damper on this year’s festivities and kept crowds to a minimum.While only some 800 guests attended the opening night ceremony at the Berlinale Palast — less than half of the normal capacity of the festival’s grand main venue — the event was nevertheless a hopeful sign for the local film industry and for cinema in general.The festival was uncompromising in its mask policy for the red carpet, rendering most high-profile guests unrecognizable — although many whipped them off for the phalanx of photographers.

But the Berlinale Palast’s famous disco ball spun nonetheless and aside from the COVID of it all, the scene felt very much like old times, both on the red carpet and inside, where a number of local guests and some international industry congregated for the opening ceremony.

Long lines for entry — slowed down considerably by festival attendants fastidiously checking all vaccination and booster passes and negative COVID test results — delayed the proceedings.

Variety understands a broken printer at one of the kiosks meant some guests didn’t have their seat numbers in time for the event, further delaying the ceremony.

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